Carole Zucker has been called “The Actors’ Doyenne” (Montreal Mirror). She trained as an actor, having studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and with Uta Hagen at HB Studios, both in New York City. She has performed in numerous off-Broadway productions and in regional theater in the U.S. and Canada. Carole has spent the last three decades studying and teaching acting workshops, and is considered one of the foremost authorities on the acting process. She has been influenced by the improvisational exercises of Viola Spolin and the work of Stella Adler.

Carole Zucker is a trained actor.Carole has spent over 30 years teaching and writing about acting. Carole, the instructor, trained at The Neighborhood Playhouse and HB Studios (with Uta Hagen) in New York City. Carole is universally acclaimed for her insight, devotion to teaching, and her ability to release her students’ creative energies and emotions. Many of her students have gone on to further studies in acting and careers in television, film, and the theater.
Carole has a doctorate from New York University in Cinema Studies, and teaches Cinema Studies at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada.) She is the first university professor in Canada to design a course specifically devoted to film acting, a course she continues to offer regularly at the university. Carole is the author of six books, including Figures of Light (Plenum, 1995.)This was followed by In the Company of Actors (A & C Black, 1999), a collection of interviews with 16 British and Irish actors.This book was extracted in The Sunday London Times. Her next book, Conversations With Actors on Film, Television and Stage Performance, is another collection of actor interviews (Heinemann Drama, 2002).
Most recently, Zucker published The Cinema of Neil Jordan: Dark Carnival with Wallflower Press (London, 2008), and has a new book forthcoming in 2012. Carole has spoken internationally on performance in the US, Canada, as well as in various locations in Europe.She has written for most of the major film journals in the US and Canada. Carole’s research has been supported on 4 occasions by arts awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council. Carole’s specialties include film acting; script analysis; the concepts of excess, and New German Cinema.
Carole began as an actor in summer stock and off-off Broadway productions and has performed and directed in regional theaters in the U.S. and Canada. Carole was also a member of a country rock band in which she did lead vocals and played guitar. She has written feature-length screenplays and creative fiction. Carole has studied Mindfulness and Meditation, which she uses in her acting workshops. She has also studied with the well-known vocalization teacher, Arthur Lessac, as well as other voice teachers.
Carole has recently relocated to the Burlington Vermont area where she will continue her workshops. She will continue to give talks about acting techniques as well as film acting in public venues.